Posted on Monday 3 April 2006

Holland really can be a windy place at times — hence all those windmills — but what are we to make of all the other wind-borne creatures that inhabit the Dutch ecosystem? For example, the beach-walking Animaris Currens Ventosa which stomps about on its twenty or so skeleton-like legs, menacingly waving its membranes at terrified picnickers.

Or the magnificent Animaris Pricipiere, a creature so regal in its appearance and yet at the same time so gentle and docile, preferring, as it does, to graze peacefully on sand crystals and salt.


And then consider the Animaris Rhinoceros, a two ton beast of burden so well suited to its role of transporting native Nederlanders across the endless reaches of the Dutch tundra. The proverbial "ship" of the strand.


Many of these creatures are scarcely known outside of this exotic country and it is remarkable to think that, even in this day and age, new species are still being discovered in this unique and largely untrammeled wilderness.

More information can be obtained from this site and more movies here.

Update: more useful information here.